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GENUS V. STOMPHIA (Gosse). 



Base adherent, expanded. 



Column pillar-like; without warts or suckers, im- 

 perforate (?) ; skin much corrugated ; substance not 

 at all cartilaginous, but soft and lax. 



Dish very protrusile. 



Tentacles perfectly retractile. 



Acontia not present. 



Only one species has been yet recognised, 8. 

 Churchia!. 



